Usually means: Lacking initiative or strength; irresponsible.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. feckless: Merriam-Webster
  2. feckless: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. feckless: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. feckless: Collins English Dictionary
  5. feckless: Vocabulary.com
  6. Feckless, feckless: Wordnik
  7. feckless: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. feckless: Wiktionary
  9. feckless: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. feckless: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. feckless: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Feckless, feckless: Dictionary.com
  13. feckless: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Feckless: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. feckless: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. feckless: Rhymezone
  17. Feckless: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. feckless: FreeDictionary.org
  19. feckless: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. feckless: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. Feckless: The Word Detective
  22. feckless: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. Feckless: World Wide Words
  24. feckless: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. feckless: Legal dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Feckless: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  2. feckless: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (feckless)

▸ adjective:  Lacking purpose.
▸ adjective:  Without skill, ineffective, incompetent.
▸ adjective:  Lacking the courage to act in any meaningful way.
▸ adjective:  (British, archaic) Lacking vitality.

Similar:
inept, incompetent, irresponsible, aimless, directionless, pointless, purposeless, mindless, slack-handed, reasonless, more...

Opposite:
responsible, dutiful, diligent, conscientious, hard-working, industrious, zealous, diligence

Types:
feckful, fecklessly, feckfulness, more...

Phrases:
opposite of feckless, more...


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Similar:
inept, incompetent, irresponsible, aimless, directionless, pointless, purposeless, mindless, slack-handed, reasonless, more...

Opposite:
responsible, dutiful, diligent, conscientious, hard-working, industrious, zealous, diligence

Types:
feckful, fecklessly, feckfulness, more...

Phrases:
opposite of feckless, more...



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